Deforestation in Mount Kenya
Deforestation affects Species Diversity.
Over the past 3 centuries, about half of the world forest has been removed due to croplands,pastures and settlement. Forest losses is greatest in Africa as bout 8% is lost eve decade. Kenya has been facing the worst kind of the deforestation due settlement, logging and building of infrastructure. The many effects of deforestation such as environment degradation, climate change and reduction of endemic and keystone species richness.
Species is decreased due to habitat loss as a result of deforestation for example, Swarm-raiding army ants are considered keystone species of tropical forest ecosystems because of the effects of their raids on the animal fauna and because many vertebrate (e.g. ant-following birds) and invertebrate species (a plethora of insects living in their colonies) depend upon them (Gotwald 1995; Peters & Okalo 2009).
A two-year study is the first to investigate the intuitive assumption that hives placed near a forest yield more honey than those placed further away, which indirectly suggests that bee activity is affected by proximity to a forest. We also investigated for the first time whether the biochemical quality of honey is influenced by distance from a forest.
Deforestation leads to a positive feedback as all species that leave in the forest lose habitat.
Original Chart.
Deforestation in Mount Kenya
Over the past 3 centuries, about half of the world forest has been removed due to croplands,pastures and settlement. Forest losses is greatest in Africa as bout 8% is lost eve decade. Kenya has been facing the worst kind of the deforestation due settlement, logging and building of infrastructure. The many effects of deforestation such as environment degradation, climate change and reduction of endemic and keystone species richness.
Species is decreased due to habitat loss as a result of deforestation for example, Swarm-raiding army ants are considered keystone species of tropical forest ecosystems because of the effects of their raids on the animal fauna and because many vertebrate (e.g. ant-following birds) and invertebrate species (a plethora of insects living in their colonies) depend upon them (Gotwald 1995; Peters & Okalo 2009).
A two-year study is the first to investigate the intuitive assumption that hives placed near a forest yield more honey than those placed further away, which indirectly suggests that bee activity is affected by proximity to a forest. We also investigated for the first time whether the biochemical quality of honey is influenced by distance from a forest.
Deforestation leads to a positive feedback as all species that leave in the forest lose habitat.
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Original Chart.
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